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1) Stephen O’Connor’s new collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, has just been published by Free Press. He will be giving readings and participating in other events throughout September and October. For details and reviews, click here. 2) Rosecrans Baldwin’s first novel, You Lost Me There, has received raves from NPR, the Daily [...]
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hello, friends and readers and interested parties: Just a quick word to say we’re here, and there will be news of our activities soon. We’re hard at work finalizing the lineup and other details of the Significant Objects book. We’ll have more to say and announce soon. Thank you for your patience!
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Toronto Star on dating/social sites that match by taste in books and the like. http://bit.ly/9ADO4a # Grumbler assesses NYT article claiming "social stigma" attached to reading books in public. http://bit.ly/cUZiir # Climb Inside Bookshelf Tower http://tumblr.com/xr4gn8y9n # Mushrooms + 40,000 Discarded Books = 1 Garden of Knowledge: http://tumblr.com/xr4gn2ydt (via @TreeHugger) # How To Turn Old Paperbacks into Custom Hardbacks [...]
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
1. The Huffington Post recently named Andrew Ervin’s debut Extraordinary Renditions one of the 15 “Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010.” The book will be published on Sept. 1. (Pre order from our shop.) 2. Benjamin Percy received a starred review for his debut novel, The Wilding (also in our shop) — “As close [...]
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
1. William Gibson’s Zero History, his tenth novel, will be released September 3 in the UK, September 7 in the US. He will be touring the US, UK and Canada during September and October. 2. Jason Grote’s play 1001 will run at Chicago’s Chopin Theater from Sept. 9-Oct. 9 in a production from Collaboraction. Look [...]
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Monday, August 23, 2010
1) Dean Haspiel won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design (for Bored to Death). Also, Haspiel’s app/comic STREET CODE #1 launched earlier this month; and from October 2 – December 12, there will be an exhibition on the making of the graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution (by Haspiel and Inverna Lockpez) at Kentler International Drawing [...]
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
How to turn a book into a book rack. http://tumblr.com/xr4gfwuwr # "Odd website where people photograph themselves feeding food to inanimate objects." http://bit.ly/9qlWiq # Atlantic on book about pre-Kindle "reading revolution," The Book In The Renaissance. http://bit.ly/bmTHov # Salvation Army encourages thrifters to post (Significant?) finds on its Tumblr http://tumblr.com/xr4g9i8y2 # Book of essays about "voluntary suffering" is printed [...]
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Friday, August 20, 2010
We’ve just started a “bookstore” page using Amazon Associates, where we’ll gradually be adding works by all of our 200+ contributors who have books for sale. To keep it from being too overwhelming, we’re starting with a small number (all recent releases), and adding a few new titles every weekday, so keep an eye on [...]
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
1) Kate Bernheimer has two new books out: Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press, illustrated by Rikki Ducornet), a collection of her “forceful and spirited stories that will definitely prove disturbing” (according to Library Journal Review); and she’s edited My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin Non-Classics), [...]
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Monday, August 16, 2010
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe’s website, on which you’ll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two chapters are being serialized this week at Fivechapters.com. 2) Susanna Daniel recently published a piece on [...]
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Objects with “no physical use-value” but that serve “cognitive” needs. http://tumblr.com/xr4fv1wi7 # How to “upcycle” a book into a planter. http://tumblr.com/xr4fuwiug # Smithsonian videos of old “animated” books, via Boingboing. http://tumblr.com/xr4fug4lg # The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers by Anis Shivani : http://www.metafilter.com/94640/Overrated-Writers # “What to do with old college textbooks”: http://tumblr.com/xr4fj9rxt # Late on this, but [...]
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
1) On August 24, Scott Jacobson and some friends — including Significant Objects contributor Todd Levin — are publishing a humor book, SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House). Art is by Robert Sikoryak, and the graphics minds from The Onion. 2) Laura Lippman’s fifteenth novel, I’d Know You Anywhere (William Morrow), will be published August [...]
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